Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

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• I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.

  

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• Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

  

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• From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

  

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• It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

  

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• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

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• I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

  

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• I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.

  

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• I never felt like I had a mother.

  

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• Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

  

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• From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.

  

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• People say, 'You look like the girl who used to be on that show 'Angel' - they don't actually think I'm her.

  

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• Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

  

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• I'd be walking off the court thinking I didn't put everything out there, which was the last thing I wanted, so I just went out there and focused on my game, and it worked out great. It's nice to know I can play at that level, but to do it week in, week out is a different challenge, and I want to be able to do that.

  

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• You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.

  

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• Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Challenge
  • Civil Disobedience
  • Stimulation